辩护证据又称无罪证据、防御证据，控诉证据的对称。能够否定犯罪事实，证明被告人无罪、罪轻或减免罪责的证据。是被告人及其辩护人反驳控诉和法院制作无罪判决或减免刑罚的依据。在中国，不仅被告人及其辩护人有权提出辩护证据，而且，为了防止司法人员主观片面、偏听偏信，刑事诉讼法第32条规定：司法人员“必须依照法定程序，收集能够证实被告人有罪或无罪、犯罪情节轻重的各种证据”。
除了不公正之外，检察人员扣留辩护证据也是不合法的。他们有责任将这些证据交给辩护方。
In addition to being unjust, it is illegal for prosecutors to withhold exculpatory evidence; they are obligated to turn it over to the defence.
“我们在这些诉讼案有丰富的辩护证据，将积极辩护，”默克公司的法务长肯尼思·弗雷泽(Kenneth Frazier)说。
"We have substantial defences in these cases and will defend them vigorously," said Kenneth Frazier, Merck's general counsel.
心灵感应的辩护者指出，要求每一项研究都有令人印象深刻的证据，这忽略了一个基本的统计事实：需要大量的样本才能检测到微小的影响。
Defenders of telepathy point out that demanding impressive evidence from every study ignores one basic statistical fact: it takes large samples to detect small effects.
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